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Subject:    FYI: The Free Practice Management Project
From:       Michael Thorne <Thornem () labcorp ! com>
Date:       1999-07-01 14:03:17
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Hi All,

  this is out on the "Linux Weekly News" web site, <http://lwn.net/>, thought you \
might like to know.

M.

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The Free Practice Management Project has been launched. FreePM seeks to create an \
open source system to handle most of the information system needs of medical offices \
and clinics: appointment scheduling, medical records management, insurance claims, \
etc. If it is successful, this project could well be the biggest one of its kind: a \
deeply domain-specific system for the needs of a particular industry.

For details, see the FreePM announcement, <http://lwn.net/1999/0701/a/freepm.html>.

Whether the project will be successful remains to be seen, however. This project \
appears to have broken one if the cardinal rules of free software endeavors by \
starting out with no code base whatsoever. Getting their desired "100 to 1000" \
volunteers could be hard given that there is very little for them to start hacking \
on.

We wish FreePM luck. It is, in any case, likely to be the first of many such \
projects. As free software gains "respectability," players in many industries will \
see the advantages of having an industry-specific base of free code. It is certainly \
a question of "when," and not "if" free software will move into this realm.


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FreePM can be found at: http://www.ken-tenn.net/FreePM






Michael.

Dallas.TX.US


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